The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-09
STILL PROBING.
III. Kansas Pacific Undergo
~ ing Investigation
,cDfE USHER ON THE STAND
Heavy Bills for Professional
'0HS ssrviee in Securing LesiSi@
tion-General News
stiI, Probing the Wound.

v.ysAs UlTfJ JuiJ
- Commission to-day examined
A'-@ ..t length Judge P. Usher, attor
81 slS,' ,bs Kansas Pacific Railway, now
n'. W " the attorneys for the Union
9 o..;s +, and the man who drew up the
Il .-.n.se consolidating the Union and
g g'a..s Pacific. Judge Usher narrated
~. ha-, .,orv of the Kansas Pacific from us
incePu missioner Anderson Intercepted
Col litneso with regard to the cerht-
iae wit " stock of the LeavenWorth,
Gsies u & Western road, which
f6aTsrsI Stone had said nag oeen
g i9saa,ss;Snted in large quantities 70
lE ..oDs supposed to have lnnqence
parsons s,s Tob of Congress. Judge
WIN .. donied positively that the certlh-
Usne at.StT;hnted to him had ever been IN
G4Ie SSs sii1d to him. He characterized
.sC' o uvt as spurious, and said ne
!ls W. ~ 'tN IseTned of their existence till
a Fer the tbe passage Of the act OF July ISL,
SaS5 he had no knowledge OF any at
t 20, IN influence a member OF Con-
s,ap' Witness " described at great length
$50 0-ogress of the Kansas Pacific up
.ne P' i57S when vigorous efforts
w. - made by the company
var .coniTs by legislation, the
right Of through freight over
the line Of the Union Pacific, by com
neilipg the latter company TO accept
aTd deliver through freight at Chey-
snTe Witness and others went TO
Wash;ngson in the winter OF 1878.
Tbere he met Jay Gould, who sag
gested that the Kansas Pacific stock
holders sell their stock to him Gould
All Kansas Pacific holders agreed to
sell at l2li per cent, and the bargain
was concluded in the spring of 1879. A
peculiar feature OF the mortgage was
The special provision by which securi-
lies Of Jay Gould and Russell Sage were
exempted from communication rates,
and we're entitled to be retired at
the specified sum of So, 100000 in bonds.
The amount in bonds to which their
SECURITIES would deem themselves en-
titled 81 Communication rates provided
for other holders, was 81 100000. Judge
Usher could not remember why this
provision had been inserted. The only
Instructions be had received were from
Jay Gould personally. The wit
ness was then examined with re-
gard TO the number of items
found on the Kansas Pacific books,
showing the payment for legal ex-
penses.' Among them were 81, 500 to
William E. Chandler, in 1874, in assist
ing to get the pro rata bill passed by
Congress, an item Of S., 001 for extra
ordinary expenses" at Topeka, BY At
iOrney Dennis; $4749 to John B. Hen
leTSOn, OF st. Louis; S745 paid Horace
White; 5000 to Shoemaker; $1l 900
paid Z. G. Ingersoll, of Washington,
1911 assisting IN the passage of the bills, |
Judge Usher said he had never had
anything to do with such bills. The
Dennis Item hadlnO doubt been expended
a entertaining members of the Legisls
!ure at Topeka.
William E. Chambers bill he con-
nuefeo was for soliciting business. -
explaining TO members of Congress- the
etc. A1lns la"s'
legal argument. - ""S Ioraa
horace Whites was for nrenorina
S au SellVerlng speech before the Cor
SSf li committee on the nro III rato
O oi The other bills he knew po not 1%Sg
NJ Judge Ushers criticized the Official. 81
me Var and Postoffcs NJ 6s UIactaIs OF OF
,5o. not giving the Union Pacf pal I Ialent
5 sna;e Of government tr aT,nS a larger
business, business As to the dent SSat'portatlon
,r g0IgGs government would t SI5ne ;s
making s2d ps se s.6 the interest n iT 70,
6ss he ro oo59anoldeFs would do iii Ika mort
he vs would o enable Kansas aSU'' ana ana
so5s rs. stride forward, 'Ae >. an i'm i'm
The py ,Isa have cheaper freight r s9ey
S.5s Be removed S to Gt 1 the company
don Tst.! are located. Inc e''" "o. its
d. Sa sss: Personal eIamiH GS@mis. is,
soes to Dssyyee5a central road next, and tbs OF